Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-11
Report OF President Jerauld County
w. G. T. U.
(coNTINuEp FROM LASr wEEK.)

NHAA AAoNA' S.A,
almost baby yet, whose tenth birthday
you have just celebrated, whose trust
ing confidlng sweetness is the delight
Of your heart, is to-day the lawful prey
OF any william who may %entrapiher. He
will walk your streets unwhippel of
justice. for under DakotA's Law which
does not recognize the right OF a Sc
male to do business for herself until
twenty-one, yet says the iibertine
who gains the consent of your ten year
old daughter TO her ruin may go free.
Can effort is now being made in oul
legislature to raise the age from ten to
eighteen.l You say don't mention
such things, women ought not to know
about them" Shame. when every
woman's soul should burn in indigna-
ton against this awful business of
making offal OF the daughters of the
land. Frances Willard says: "Ihe very
air seems agitated withliving breathing
thoughts on the new crusade. Every
where | go Che silence Of intensest in
terest greets the one who intr )duces
the topic. Women speaking and audi,
ences listening to the discussion Of a
side of social life concerning which
the whispers q sentence a few years
ago would have been considered q
breach of the rules of propriety." Jer-
auld county has distributed white
Cross and Social Purity" literature.
Organized n branch of "Wnite Cross
Army"-had nineteen sermons preach
ed upon Social Purity" and a number
OF original articles published n county
papers. Mrs. Blank the Supt. is Just
the right woman in the right place.
woMANS PLEDGE o pUHlTY.
Promise by the help Of
God.
Ito uphold the law of purity as
equally binding upon men and
women.
2.-To be modest in la1hgtage, behav-
ior, and dress.
$40 avoid all conversation, read
Ing, art, and amusements, which
may, put impure thoughts into
my mind.
40 guard the purity Of others,
especially Of my companions and
friends.
). To strive after the special blessing
promised to the pure IN heart.
sABB AI1I oEsElsv ANCE.
Me-. Tryon the county Snpt. reports
sermons preached upon that topic, and
Mrs, Smart the Territorial Supt. has
worked faithfully to bring before the
people the necessity OF h%onoring God
by a better observance Of his day, In
IL rural districts, and small villages,
the deliberate Dissertation of the Sab
bath is not sc common, but there is
room for Improvement and we must
not allow the necessities OF il frontier
life to cause lib to grow careless in this
line of work.
FLOWER MlSSIO>.
Mrs. ID w Shryock has met us upon
all occasions with the fruits Of her
beautiful department., Frightening, and
cheering, and comforting our heart
with her messengers of love Coos
ministers the flowers. always. accom-
panied with a scripture text Ceiling of
Gods love to fallen man. She, and her
fragrant blossoms, greet us at the fair,
in tho Jail, at the sociai at public meet
ings, at the polls. and in the house of
mourning,
PRESS SM;fnNiE,.
In this 5erauld county carries the
banner. Until September every paper
in the county had a space. devoted to
temperance which was filled by the W
Mrs. Jennie II Miles county
5 III. has the pleasnre. OF KNOWING. uhAt
her department has reached che masses
more elfectually than aDv other.
DEPARTMENT OF lEGIsLArUEE AND
PETITIONS.
Mrs. Fanny Mcdonald Sqpt., there
has been circulated a, petition tor re-
moval of cider from fair grounds and
enc to Congress .,sking that Mrs. Hunts
Scientific Temperance instruction bill
become Il law. The CIDER was not re-
moved, but Congress passed, Mrs.
Hunts hill and it is now being enforc-
ed as Il law.
FRANCHISE, y. .,.f,.<
Many of our women are beginning
to think that universal suffrage is the
true stepping stone to prohibition Of
the liquor tratlice. And yet we are
met by Il hiss and that word "unwo~
manly" il we wish to lay our.hand up
on the machinery which produces the
laws which to q great extent make or
the children we must rear. Is the
Gauss OF anhood scllght .. bauhle
that Il breath can whirl it from the
brow into dust? We are told to Ego
back and take your needle and do fancy
work. Don't attempt to,think. leave
that to the sterner SEX" That sounds
nice, but while we are embroidering
and painting, and making wall banners
and screens, and tlattering ourselves
that we are sweet and womanly, Satan
steps around the corner and builds a
palace filed with light and warmth.
ana seI.sual pictures, and pours ITO
glittering crystal a seductive beverage,
that steals away the BRAIN and priIci-
pie. of our boy and we get frightened
and cell him the saloon is the open door
:, hcn ba Iorhta nc and lofOrn wa